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Shehu said the gunmen who came in large numbers attacked the village in the early hours of Wednesday shooting repeatedly, which led to the death of the three persons.

Police Public Relation Officer, Mr William Aya who confirmed the incident, said gunmen numbering about 15 engaged police guard on duty at a construction site along the Obajana - Oshokoshoko road in a gun battle.

He said the gunmen attacked at about at about 5 am when members of the community were going for early morning prayers.

Confirming the incident, Anambra State Police Commissioner said the gunmen took a rifle belonging to the policeman that was killed in the gun duel with the policemen at the Assemblies of God Church in Oguta in Onitsha.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the gunmen established contact with the family on Friday, demanding the payment of N6m as the condition for his release.

One of the survivors of the Tuesday attack, Mr. Raymond Emberga, said the gunmen came into the community shooting into the air.

A close family source, who wished not to be named, said the gunmen were 12, stressing that while two went inside for the operation, 10 persons mounted guards on the premises and outside the residence.

The chairman of a local community group, Osi Olisa, said the gunmen also shot people on the road before escaping.

At 2:24 p.m., just five minutes after police say the gunman got out of the car in front of the school, the shooting stopped, according to an official police timeline.

Police say gunmen attacked a Catholic Mass on the campus, using small explosives to draw worshippers out before shooting those who fled.

From the pulpit, Hall delivered the liturgy with a strong message to his faithful to call for action by their legislators to institute stricter laws banning access to semi-automatic rifles, such as the one police said the gunman used in Friday's massacre.

Authorities said the gunman was a local resident, and his wife has been detained for questioning.

Garba Umar, police commissioner of Anambra state, said a gunman attacked St Philip Catholic Church early on Sunday.

Since authorities say the gunman was a white dude named Jared Lee Loughner, he was just a kooky loner whose mental health must have been the triggering factor.

Authorities say the gunman responsible for the massacre, which left 58 people dead and hundreds wounded, used bump stocks to allow his semi-automatic weapons to rain down considerably more bullets on the unsuspecting crowd during the attack.

Early Wednesday morning as Officer Familia was sitting in an NYPD mobile command unit in Fordham, police say gunman Alexander Bonds approached and assassinated her, shooting her through the window.

Information reaching us from Makurdi, the Benue State capital says gunmen have taken grip of the mourning state right now as the area is under intense...

-- Police say the gunman who killed his ex-girlfriend near Cooper Union had been stalking her for four months.

At 2:24 p.m., just five minutes after police say the gunman got out of the car in front of the school, the shooting stopped, according to an official police timeline.

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Andrew Pollack, the father of 18 - year - old Meadow Pollack who was killed after being shot nine times by the 19 - year - old gunman Nikolas Cruz, said he was «pissed» that little is being done to protect students.

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MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters)- Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday for the first time since she was shot by a Taliban gunman as a teenager, two security officials and a family friend said.

A few days after a gunman murdered 17 of her fellow students in Parkland, Florida, she stood at a podium and, with unbelievable poise and power, said the fearless words that adults couldn't.

Hours after a gunman killed more than 20 people in a Texas church, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a scathing statement blasting his colleagues in Congress for accepting money from gun lobbyists and what Murphy said was not doing enough to prevent the attack.

When asked if the FBI suspected that the gunman may have an extremist leanings, including a possible sympathy with Islamic State, Ronald Hopper, an assistant FBI agent in charge, said: «We do have suggestions that the individual may have leanings toward that particular ideology.

Gunmen paid by the leaders of the Cali ring sometimes flew into New York or Miami to carry out a killing, law enforcement officials said.

«You,» said Andrew Pollack, directing his fury at the man who authorities have identified as the gunman who killed his daughter, Meadow Pollack, 18.

«Two of my best friends aren't here anymore,» said freshman Sammy Cooper, who picked up the book bag he had dropped as he saw the accused gunman, 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, begin shooting.

Body camera footage from officers who entered Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock's hotel suite during October's mass shooting will be released Wednesday, as part of a rolling release of material, police say.

On the eve of the march, Colion Noir, a host on NRATV, an online video channel produced by the gun group, lashed out at the Parkland students, saying that «no one would know your names» if someone with a weapon had stopped the gunman at their school.

The company said it had never sold bump stocks, like those used by the gunman in October's Las Vegas shooting, that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire more rapidly.

• A note the gunman left on a table inside his suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino had numbers written on it, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in an interview on Thursday.

Mr. Lombardo said that a few days before the shooting, the gunman took another set of rooms in a high - rise building near another music festival.

After 58 people were killed at a country music festival in Las Vegas last year by a gunman who used bump stocks, GOP senators said they would be open to Feinstein's legislation.

The gunman's motive remains unknown, Sheriff Lombardo said on Wednesday.

The gunman started firing before even entering the school, leaving a trail of carnage across the sprawling campus, Israel said.

In the poll conducted after a gunman killed 17 people at a Florida high school last week, more than three - quarters, 77 percent, said they think more effective mental health screening and treatment could have prevented the shooting.

Some say the way to stop an armed gunman is by being armed and greater self control.

In his confession to the FBI, the gunman said he carried out the killings after researching «black on white crime» on the internet.

The gunman is thought to have been acting in conjunction with a protest outside the base, the official said.

At least 10 people, including eight Coptic Christians, have been killed after gunmen opened fire outside a church in a Cairo suburb, Egypt «sHealth Ministry says...

A Coptic Christian man has been shot dead by gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, security officials in the country have said.

Gunmen killed 19 people when they fired on worshipers at a church in Ni.g.eria's central Kogi state during a Monday evening service, police said on Tuesday, the BBC reported.

The Texas church where more than two dozen people were killed by a gunman during Sunday services will be demolished, the pastor said.

The gunman who killed 26 people at a Baptist church in Texas on Sunday sent threatening text messages to his mother - in - law before the rampage, authorities say.

Police say that gunman turned a gun on himself after being shot by a neighbor who pursued him following the church shooting.

One of the church's former pastors, Mark Collins, returned to help with the service, and told The L.A. Times that the church had reached out to the gunman's family, saying that they would be praying for them: «Our hearts and prayers go out to his family.»

CNN: Gunman, six others dead at Wisconsin Sikh temple The FBI will investigate Sunday's rampage at a Sikh temple in a Milwaukee suburb as a «domestic terrorist - type incident» that left at least six people and the gunman dead, the town's police chiefGunman, six others dead at Wisconsin Sikh temple The FBI will investigate Sunday's rampage at a Sikh temple in a Milwaukee suburb as a «domestic terrorist - type incident» that left at least six people and the gunman dead, the town's police chiefgunman dead, the town's police chief said.

The preliminary investigation indicated that Nancy Davis, 59, and her husband were traveling on a Mexican highway near the city of San Fernando, Mexico, when they were confronted by gunmen in a black pickup, the Pharr Police Department in Texas said in a statement.

«The gunmen were attempting to stop them and the victims accelerated in efforts of getting away from them,» the police statement said.